Reply #13: About Obama's Church [View All]

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Sky Bluesky - 07:11 pm Pacific Time - Jan 5, 2008 - #3168 of 3859
Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!

Going way back to the subject of Obama's religion.

Obama goes to a United Church of Christ church, same as me. They're actually a very liberal (and progressive) congregation with a long and proud history of social action. One of my local ministers has been arrested for civil disobedience at the local nuclear submarine base and he was recently involved in the local suit to legalize gay marriage in our state. (He is gay, obviously, as is his partner, who was also a minister in the church for almost a decade.)

Obama's not a religious nut. The whole position of the UCC is that faith necessarily involves doing good works - helping the poor, fighting for justice, serving the whole community. There's a bunch of stuff about their history, and some of their historic stances, here. They ordained their first African-American minister in 1785. They led the first integrated anti-slavery society in the country. They ordained their first openly gay minister back in 1972. Anyway, I don't think Obama's religion stands in opposition to his politics in any way.